Commission on the National Question (1/VI. 1920). Our party program on the national question

(its sub-points).

Austrian experience.

Ukrainian experience.

Belgian experience.

Alsace-Lorraine.

Balkan experience.

Danish-German relations.

Eastern peoples:

Bashkirs

Tatars

Kirghiz

Turkic peoples

struggle against pan-Islamism

Colonies…

America and Negroes.

Request Stalin without fail.

Point 1 – Rapprochement… its forms…

Concrete proposals on how to bring about rapprochement.

One general organization (of the party?) with workers in several languages? or national subdivisions?

Finances? appointments of officials?

2) Elimination of privileges.

(a) form?

laws?

administrative practice?

(b) "complete equality of rights"

in the constitution?

Cf. Constitution of the RSFSR

other laws, etc.

(c) "recognition of the right of colonies and unequal nations to secession."

Real guarantees: not in words alone, but in deed (elaborate and specify – the form of declarations in parliaments, etc.).

Namely: in deed, assistance to revolutionary struggle and uprisings in colonies.

3) Federal union – as a form of transition to complete unity.

Experience of the RSFSR: concrete account of the content of federation (railways, post, military affairs, national economy, etc.).

Written in June, not later than the 5th, 1920.

First published in 1945 in Lenin Collection XXXV

Printed from the manuscript